Open Program
The AIS Centre for Performance Coaching and Leadership offers a range of open learning opportunities, including seminars from world best content providers and international study tours.
The Open Program provides performance coaches and leaders with an alternative pathway to access flexible performance development opportunities.
Maximising your Leadership Potential
Presented by Melbourne Business School (MBS)-Mt Eliza Executive Education
Tailored to performance coaches, this course will assist you in developing a strong understanding of your personal leadership style and gain the skills to enhance your communication, motivation, coaching, teamwork, feedback and conflict resolution capacities.
Developed by the Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL®) in the USA, this course will help you gain an understanding of how your actions, personal style, strengths and limitations affect the people you lead. You will be challenged personally and professionally during an intense learning experience and will emerge with practical applications that can be transferred immediately to your work.
Key course components
- Self awareness and communication: Lessons from your coaching and sport environment will be introduced to understand the impact you have in your sport or organisation. You will engage in a leadership assessment, understand how your interpersonal needs shape the way you lead and receive detailed feedback on your leadership capabilities.
- Communication: Develop techniques and skills to communicate effectively including video recording of your current method. You will improve your ability to work in groups by examining the dynamics of group interaction.
- Influence: Develop your ability to influence key stakeholders. You will be able to create practical strategies to reach attainable goals and objectives.
- Conflict: Gain an understanding of the dynamics of conflict and how to work with them. You will practise effectively resolving a conflict scenario of your choice.
- Coaching: This course includes one on one feedback with certified CCL® specialists and post course follow up to support integration and application back in your sport or organisation.
Strategic Thinking and Action
Presented by MBS-Mt Eliza Executive Education
This course is designed to help you develop the skills, techniques and thinking processes essential to achieving strategic outcomes and goals in your sport and organisation.
You will learn that strategic success depends on your ability to identify and maximise thinking processes as well as your ability to lead and execute. In this course we will cover the following associated themes: strategy and leadership; strategy and the environment; strategy and core competence; and execution of strategy.
You will benefit from the experiences of best-practice organisations and gain the skills and techniques necessary to achieve strategic outcomes and goals.
Key course components
- Looking outside sport and the organisation: The role of strategy and environment, strategic intent and vision, competitor and customer analysis and value creation which focuses on operational excellence and innovation will all be discussed.
- Looking inside sport and the organisation: How can a strong strategy and culture provide a competitive advantage? Key concepts of strategic alignment and strategic innovation are also introduced.
- From promise to performance: You will learn how to address toxic assumptions, align delivery with strategy and generate a business model which assesses and analyses activities, resources and partnerships to deliver value.
- Bringing it all together: How to align leadership, strategy and culture and build the bridge of learnings back to your sport and organisation with a focus on supporting specific implementation and execution challenges.
Strategic success depends on your ability to identify and maximise thinking processes as well as your ability to lead and execute. An effective strategy must either respond to a changing environment or shape it.
Creating Excellent Communicators
Presented by the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)
This course is focused on improving interpersonal communication. Coaches will identify and practice fundamental strategies to manage a range of professional communications.
Training is highly practical and drawn from the best of NIDA performance practice.
Key course components
- Vocal presence: Developing your voice for effective communication and as a key performance tool. You will consider volume, pace, texture and clarity and also the impact on coach and athlete physiology.
- Put yourself in the picture: A video session to identify and review your communication style.
- Engaging others: How to plan for successful communication. Take control of the given elements, articulate your objectives and identify obstacles and strategies to overcome them.
- Affecting others: How to apply techniques to confidently manage a range of communication situations.
- Physical presence: Identify how body language contributes to communication. Consider posture, gestures, energy and spatial awareness.
- Claiming the stage: How to make adjustments to ensure the involvement of others. Initiate communication, listen and respond and test the impact of communication in a variety of spatial contexts.
- Setting the scene: How to devise and present a range of communication scenarios and respond to feedback.
Maximising Altitude
Presented by the AIS
This workshop will draw on over 30 years of international research, coaching experiences and services delivered to Australian athletes, which continues to highlight opportunities for coaches to maximise the application of altitude in training and in competition.
Key areas of focus
- Does altitude training work and is it beneficial for performance?
- Optimal use of altitude exposure for a variety of high performance objectives
- Case studies from sport
- Altitude camps – where and when?
- What are the best options for Australian athletes?
- Programming of altitude exposure for individual athletes
Optimising Sleep for Athletes and Coaches
Presented by the AIS
Getting the appropriate quantity and quality of sleep is vital for enhancing recovery and optimising performance – in fact, sleep is the best recovery strategy athletes and coaches have at their disposal.
This workshop will draw on recent evidence collected from athletes at the AIS, the Australian Olympic Team and a range of professional teams, which has highlighted concerns with athlete sleep both during periods of normal training and in competition.
Key areas of focus
- The consequences of sleep deprivation
- Some of the reasons why athletes (and coaches) may have poor sleep
- Discussion on a variety of strategies to enhance sleep including:
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- developing good sleep hygiene and routines
- minimising the use of the technology in the bedroom
- psychological strategies
- how to minimise jet lag and travel stress.
Performance Management Conversations
Presented by Development Dimensions International
Organisations and teams are a bundle of people having conversations. How well they have these conversations impacts on how well the organisation or team functions. This course will deliver training in ‘interaction management’ and enhance your skills to hold appropriate and focused performance management conversations.
Key course components
- Specific areas of focus for conversations including motivation, engagement and feedback discussions
- Strategies and approaches to identify high performance, support development and to provoke change in under performance
Innovation Training
Presented by Clear Perform
Innovation Training is an interactive session for coaches. It will teach you not only how to spot new ideas and break problems down, but how to seek inspiration and prototype ideas to create bigger, better and creative solutions for improving ways of working. The course will teach you how to build new programs, tools and technologies to drive high performance.
This session on innovation and thinking skills will be brought to life with example innovations, hands on exercises and case studies.
Decision Making
Presented by MBS-Mt Eliza Executive Education
Leading in a complex, dynamic environment requires coaches and leaders with a sound understanding of the art and science behind decision making. This course focuses on both the descriptive and prescriptive aspects of decision making to empower you to make sound decisions, leverage your strengths and achieve exceptional results from the decision-making process.
Effective decision making is a core element in achieving outstanding long-term results for your sport or organisation. This course helps you to strengthen your strategic decision making abilities now and into the future. You will develop methods, tools and techniques to assist you to lead your sport or organisation through strong, strategic decisions.
Key course components
- Self development: Intuition and the process of decision making, understanding your biases and patterns for making decisions and developing personal effectiveness in decision making.
- Deciding for the sport or organisation: Understanding and evaluating strategic alternatives, implementing structured processes for establishing value in different courses of action, how to guide others through the decision making process and successfully applying criteria for decision making in uncertainty.
- Case studies: Topics include transformation in action, innovative thinking, futures thinking, employee engagement and generational leadership.
It is critical for an organisation that its leaders are equipped with the skills to make business focused decisions.
Mental Health First Aid
Presented by the AIS
Mental Health First Aid is a practical course for coaches, where you will learn how to identify the signs and symptoms of mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety. You will learn how to provide initial support to someone who is developing a mental illness or experiencing a mental health crisis until appropriate professional treatment is received or the crisis resolves. Mental health issues covered include: panic attacks; suicidal thoughts and behaviours; aggressive behaviour; severe effects of alcohol and drugs; and post traumatic events.
Coaches will learn practical strategies on where and how to get help and what sort of help has been shown by contemporary research to be effective.
Communicating with Impact
Presented by NIDA
This course is focused on improving interpersonal communication. Performance leaders will identify and practice fundamental strategies to manage a range of professional communications.
Training is highly practical and drawn from the best of NIDA performance practice.
Key course components
- Put yourself in the picture – a video session to identify and review your communication style
- Vocal presence – developing your voice for effective communication; consider volume, pace, texture and clarity.
- Engaging others – how to plan for successful communication; take control of the given elements; articulate your objectives and identify obstacles and strategies to overcome them.
- Affecting others – how to apply techniques to confidently manage a range of communication situations
- Physical presence – identify how body language contributes to communication; consider posture, gestures, energy and spatial awareness.
- Claiming the stage – how to make adjustments to ensure the involvement of others; initiate communication; listen and respond; and test the impact of communication in a variety of spatial contexts.
- Setting the scene – how to devise and present a range of communication scenarios and respond to feedback
